Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	division_n	foot_n	horse_n	1,961	5	9.0686	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26736	A declaration of the Irish armie in Ulster sent to the Parlament in a letter from William Basill, Esquire, Atturney [sic] General of Ireland, which letter and declaration are ordered by the Parlament to bee [sic] printed, and were referred to the Council of State to see it don[e] accordingly : to which is added som[e] Remarques thereupon, by a private pen.	Basill, William.; Private pen.; Ireland. Army.	1650 (1650)	Wing B1025; ESTC R17302	14,182	26

My Lord dispatcheth away to Colerain for Claneboys men to advance to Derry and that hee would engage the Enemie so that he should not return to stop them The Bishop was verie angrie to bee thus deluded drawe's all his hors and foot into Battalia as if hee would give battell faceth my Lord President My Lord drew up his who had onlie his own Regiment of Hors and four Troops of Col. Rich. Coots his other being with major King and about 300. Countrie hors commanded by Colonel Sanderson and about a 1000 foot of his own Regiment and his brother Colonel Thomas Coots Regiment they continued 9 or 10 hours pickering my Lord President had no reason to fight for hee was sure to have the accession of Venables forces speedily So the Bishop towards evening began to draw off his Armie towards the Pass my Lord well supposing that the Bishop finding that hee had no ways advantag'd himself might draw over to prevent the conjuncture with Venables fell to a dispute with the Bishop in hors-logick charging him home with 4 Troops of hors which the Irish verie gallantly recieved in it Captain Tailor of our side was kil'd in the midst of their Pikes Capt. Carchart shot very dangerously and about 8 Troopers the Enemie lost about 60 men and divers sorely wounded The hot charges from so small a partie and in bad ground made the Irish march the mountainest ground they could find to Litterkenny my Lord coasting by them and keeping the Countrie under his protection By this time Venables foot being about a 1000 are com to Derry my Lord and they are joyn'd they advance upon the enemie now at Litterkenny My Lord understanding that the Bishop had sent off a partie into Kilmacrenan to take in Dee to fetch in provision thought it not fit to let the opportunitie slipof fighting him so upon the 21 June at Schear follis two miles above Litterkenny they both imbattail'd the Irish were about 4000 foot and 400 hors my Lord President about 2000 foot and 800. horse the Irish were in gross Battalia's my Lord drew up his in smal ones handsomly dispos'd to succour one another The forlorns incounter fiercely on both sides till at last all hands were ingag'd at push of Pike and clubbing of Muskets the Gronnd was such that my Lords hors nor the Enemies could encounter each other or my Lords hors charge their foot but the smalness of my Lords divisions were easilie rallied moved nimblie whilst the Enemies gross of infantrie fought themselvs into a rout and at last into a flight but what hors my Lord order'd for a rescue followed the execution which was as noble a one victorious as ever was in this Kingdom They lost all their Arms and provisions of the field They have lost all their Officers and all their men My Lord President hath made a List which I have sent you but Sir 't is impossible for him to know it for the execution hath been 33 miles from the place hee fought in for Major King being at Elleskellin with those Irish fell on by my Lord Presidents orders sent to him upon the defeat betwixt that and the Omagh and hath slain manie hundreds and after my Lord had compleated his List Major King took the Bishop on the 25 of this moneth and 200 hors and scatter'd and kil'd all the rest who escaped the execution of the field it 's possible that a fortnight hence wee may know the Officers But I who have spoken with the protected people am certain that they can not learn of a 100 men escapid and som 3 or 4 Officers whereof Sir Philem Oneale and Alex. Mac-donnell the Earl of Antrims brother are two my Lord President lost one Captain about seven men Col. Fennicks shot Major Hary Gore shot Captain Gore and Ensign Gere hurt with Pikes and som common Souldiers hurt at push of Pike The holds of Bellicastle and Dungeven and Lifford which they had fortified they have quitted Thus God hath wrought a great deliverance first to us in these parts who certainly if my Lord had miscarried had been al put to the sword and next unto the whole Kingdom this beeing the Armado the Irish relied upon It was not onely the greatest strength of Foot this Kingdom of Ireland had but that Foot likewise whose merit they esteemed much These were the first that began the Rebellion that continued it and these are they praised bee God that have ended it My Lord President is immediately for the field though these ten weeks hee hath been in constant action and I am sure put to as hard streights to preserv the Province of Ulster as ever anie one hath been and truly an ordinarie spirit would have fainted under the work His experience is best able to represent his own wants though they are palpable enough no man ever served masters upon a cheaper rate and had not the forces under him a cleer apprehension of his self-racking to supplie them the affairs in Ireland by my dial would have gon back manie degrees S r though I have tired you you would bee content to read another volume to the same tune a sharp and well supplied prosecution end 's this work this Sommer in humane appearance How much my Lord President hath contributed to it within this half year obteining two Victories in the first against S r George Monroe in which hee spoil'd all the hors of Connaught and Ulster besides the slaughter hee made of the foot and in this clean one which left no gleanings but such as Major King gathered up envie it self must confess I shall onely add my observation The instabilitie of my Lord President 's friendship with this Ulster Armie for about this time twelv-moneth the heads of this Armie were at my Lord President 's table and now their heads are upon the gates and market-place of Derrie a dear ordinarie and great interest for the forbearance It seem's my Lord know's how to borrow crutches and then burn them Sr I will rest in exspectation of a line from you Omagh June 2● 1650. FINIS